Inal Batuvych Ardzinba ( ab, Инал Арӡынба; ; russian: Инал Батувич Ардзинба; born 26 July 1990) is the current

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia The office of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia was created on 17 May 1993, during the 1992–1993 war with Georgia. Due to the diplomatic isolation of Abkhazia, which remains widely unrecognised, the role of the foreign m ...

. According to Yevgeny Yasin, former president of Abkhazia

Vladislav Ardzinba Vladislav Ardzinba ( ab, Владислав Арӡынба, ka, ვლადისლავ არძინბა; 14 May 1945 – 4 March 2010) was the first ''de facto'' President of Abkhazia. A historian by education, Ardzinba led Abkhazia ...

is Inal Ardzinba's uncle. Beginning in 2014, Ardzinba worked in the

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, eventually becoming deputy of

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, then an Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Since 2014, as an official of the

, he has been dealing with issues of interaction with Ukraine and the self-proclaimed

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a disputed en ...

and

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed ...

. In May 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office materials on Ardzinba's involvement in terrorist activities on the territory of Ukraine. On November 6, 2015, the Prosecutor's Office of the Odesa region began an investigation in absentia against Inal Ardzinba in connection with an attempt to change the state borders of Ukraine. In November 2015 Ukraine put Ardzinba on the international wanted list for violating the country's constitutional order. This information was confirmed by the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine David Sakvarelidze. In December 2015, Ardzinba was accused by the Ukrainian authorities of trying to destabilize the situation in southern Ukraine, in Bessarabia. On June 10, 2016, the head of the

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Vasyl Hrytsak announced that a criminal case was being conducted against Ardzinba in connection with his involvement in an attempt to create the Bessarabian People's Republic in the Odesa region of Ukraine - the formation of Pro-Putin's separatists similar to the

and

. In 2016, he played a prominent role in the Surkov leaks. Ardzinba pleads for the

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to play a leading role in world politics, after Russia was expelled from the

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. In January 2020, Ardzinba founded the Future of Abkhazia party. Until then he was considered to be close to the party

Amtsakhara Amtsakhara ( ab, Амцахара) is the main opposition party in Abkhazia. Foundation On 31 March 1999, Amtsakhara was founded on the initiative of Sergei Dbar, Vladimir Nachach, Aki Ardzinba and Garik Samanba and a number of others as a pub ...

.Zaal Anjaparidze: ''Changes in the Separatist Abkhazian Government and Implications for Relations With Tbilisi'', jamestown.org 15 June 2020.
/ref> Shortly thereafter, Ardzinba supported then-opposition candidate Aslan Bzhania in the 2020 Abkhazian presidential election. In 2021, president Bzhania appointed Ardzinba to be the foreign minister of

Abkhazia Abkhazia, ka, აფხაზეთი, tr, , xmf, აბჟუა, abzhua, or ( or ), officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, recognised by most countries as part of Georgia, which v ...

. His appointment was a surprise for many experts on the region. He is the youngest man to ever hold the office. After he was elected, he said that the deepening of cooperation with Russia is a priority for Abkhazia’s foreign policy. In January 2022, Ardzinba stopped the EU's and

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's confidence-building COBERM program in Abkhazia. In July 2022, Ardzinba proposed to move the Geneva International Discussions "to another more neutral city" like

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.''Anxious, Abkhazia Ponders Regional Security'', civil.ge 23 July 2022.
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References

External links

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia (from the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia)

Inal Ardzinba – Roadmap to Kremlin's Policy in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ardzinba, Inal 1990 births Living people Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia People from Sukhumi

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